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Over the years, it has been observed that overseas players are more likely to face a switch of clubs than Indian players. Almost all the marquee foreigners are shifted from one franchise to another every time there is an auction. However, there are still few who have managed to stay with the same team for a long time because of their invaluable contributions. Let us take a look at the foreign players who never changed their IPL franchise....

Widespread closures and the strain placed on health care systems have thrown up obstacles to trans people like Tally the Witch author Molly Landgraff, who has experienced disruptions to her hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. “Many trans women use oral doses of hormones, but everyone’s body responds in a different way to the hormone treatments and some, like myself, are unable to metabolize the hormones effectively via pills,” Landgraff told Newsweek....

When Clinton’s campaign aides were sizing up the Tennessee senator as a running mate in 1992, Gore’s friend and media consultant Bob Squier offered them this character reference: “He will not stab you in the back–even if you deserve it.” The challenge for Gore is to stand by a man he seems to genuinely like and admire while still ensuring that Clinton’s problems don’t complicate his own presidential prospects....

Still, the poll suggests that most voters view Edwards as charismatic and caring, while far fewer people find Vice President Dick Cheney “personally likeable.” The poll results suggest that the president, whose approval ratings are back up after hitting an all-time low in May, may have an easier time getting re-elected if someone else were to fill the veep slot. The Massachusetts senator announced his selection of the populist former trial lawyer to a crowd of supporters in Pittsburgh on Tuesday....

Since the advent of television, commentary roles have been an intricate part of the overall quality of sports and sports entertainment. The thought of watching a three-hour Monday Night Raw, without commentary, is almost laughable. There have been some good commentators, there have been some not-so-good commentators and there have been great commentators. In this particular article, we will be focusing on the all-time great commentators who have, at one time or another, been behind a WWE/WWF announcers table....

Speaking to a Pakistani website PakPassion.net, Ali opened up about the upcoming series. “The prevailing warm weather conditions in England at the moment seem to favour an India victory in the Test series in my view. They are after all, ranked as the number one Test side in the world and the only thing England have in their favour is the fact that they are playing on their home grounds," he said...

Some of Dowd’s comments were private ones; some were very public, such as his interview with The New York Times that appeared on Sunday. All of them returned to a single theme of “gut values,” as detailed in his recent book, “Applebee’s America.” Dowd’s thesis is that George W. Bush lost his relationship with voters—mostly, but not entirely, because of Iraq—and can never get it back. “The problem is that his gut-level bond with the American public has been seriously damaged and maybe lost,” Dowd wrote in Texas Monthly last month....

This isn’t the game’s PC debut of course, as it launched via publisher CD Projekt Red’s own storefront, GOG, later arriving on Android and iOS too. The Steam release should bring the free-to-play card game to a wider audience however, and add a little convenience to players used to keeping most of their games in the one launcher. The Steam release has full support for Gwent’s existing cross-play and synchronisation features....

Speaking of the popular development studio, CD Projekt Red is reportedly completely uninvolved with the film’s production and release, despite actually owning the rights to The Witcher brand at present. Although it seems strange to leave out the studio that makes The Witcher a globally recognizable product, it’s possible the Polish developers are too busy with their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 game. Given the reported size of Cyberpunk 2077, it would make sense that CD Projekt Red might simply have too much on their plate to balance movie responsibilities as well....

All that of course came after The Witcher’s official Twitter account polled fans continuously for days, asking if they’d rather get a named sneak peek or easter egg, instead of playing their chances with the Continent’s favorite debt cancellation method, the law of surprise. For most of Witchmas, fans of the show decided to go with the odds, nevertheless that doesn’t mean all that other content should go to waste....

Still, the senator says that his wife is ambivalent about his run for the presidency. She knew she would have to relive a dark period in her life, when she became addicted to prescription pain relievers and ran afoul of the law. Last October she sought some inoculation, telling her story to “Dateline.” She described how she had had trouble coping with two back operations and began popping Percocet and Vicodin in 1989....

The parties whose candidates also ran, and lost, will pose his first challenge. The PRI will hopefully disintegrate at long last, slightly more than half of its congressmen and senators defecting to the left, others to Calderón. But López Obrador’s PRD will support him to the bitter end (unless the party finds that it has to cut a deal with the new president in order to govern Mexico City effectively–it won the mayoralty of the capital with nearly 50 percent of the vote)....

And then, suddenly, a golden light on the terrace, the most golden light he’d ever seen, a light that seemed to ease the burdens of mind and body, a light to put a spring in his step: he was the Astaire of the treadmill now. A diaphanous shimmering through the plate-glass door, and there, before him, hovered an angel who’d visited him once before, in his office, an angel who looked very much like Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition....

In 2021, it was announced that the Saints Row series will be receiving a new entry in the form of a reboot. The game will have players birthing a new gang to deal with three rival gangs that have taken control of Santo Ileso. According to the developers, the game will be far more grounded than its predecessors and it will reverse the trend of increasing wackiness that has come to characterize the series....

When adapting any work, comic books included, the question of how close a creator can be expected to keep to the source material can be difficult to answer. While hardcore fans will often fight even the slightest changes, the filmmakers and showrunners behind MCU works have good reason to make new choices with old concepts. RELATED: Kevin Feige Teases Possible Spider-Man And Venom Meeting In The Future Movies based on comics have been around for decades, but the place of cultural dominance that the MCU holds is completely unprecedented....

New gaming sensation Wordle is the latest game to be hit with a Pokemon-themed version. Wordle has taken the internet by storm, with a daily word that people have a limited amount of guesses to get right. With feedback given after each of a player’s six guesses, a keen-eyed Wordle enthusiast can manage to figure out the word after a few tries. Given the popularity of the game, many are now coming up with strategies for Wordle to get the daily word as quickly as possible....

Speaking to CNN, the last Blockbuster’s general manager attributes the Bend, Oregon store’s longevity to its selection of older titles along with the latest movie and video game releases. “You can go to Redbox and you can get the new titles, but they don’t have the older ones,” she explained. While Harding is sad to see the other Blockbusters close down, the Bend, Oregon location’s status as being the only Blockbuster left in the entire world is drawing in new customers....

How did you get into barbecuing? My dad was a good barbecuer. Whenever there was a holiday, my family would build a concrete-block pit in the yard, fill it with wood and use grates that were gates from the junkyard. Dad would stand out there all day and do ribs. So that’s how I got my love for it. But how did you become the Baron? I didn’t get into competition until 1980....

Strange but true, Tupac is the troubadour for teen gangs that have joined Guadalcanal’s Aboriginal uprising against Malaitan settlers. Youths copy Tupac’s strut, hand gestures and tattoos. They study Tupac lyrics and identify with his troubled life. Born to a member of the radical Black Panther Party, Tupac went to art school, dealt crack, made films, dominated America’s hip-hop scene and died in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting–all by the age of 25....

Two weeks ago, the Biden administration invited international experts to the United States for a historic visit regarding racial justice and equality. The experts include U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism E. Tendayi Achiume of Zambia and U.N. Special Rapporteur on minority issues Fernand de Varennes of South Africa, along with other officials. The invitation was announced just as the U.N. Human Rights Council “established an international independent expert mechanism on promoting and protecting the human rights and fundamental freedoms of Africans and people of African descent against excessive use of force and other human rights violations by law enforcement officers....